Thank you very much for your letter. I shall send you
the address of the Socialist Propaganda League, unless
I have left it behind in Berne: in that case I shall send it
over from Berne (i.e., in 2 or 3 weeks’ time).

Do you think Appeal to Reason would refuse to reprint
Internationale Flugblätter No. 1? Is it worth trying?

Will the Socialist Labour Party agree to publish, if
we pay the costs? Are these people hopeless sectarians
or not? Have you any connections with them? Why don’t
they send us copies of their papers in the Internationale
Sozialistische Kommission? (I saw some quite by chance.)
Or are they maniacs with an idée fixe about a special “
economic” organisation of workers?

You ask how desirable it is that the Norwegian party
should send its official representative to the conference.
Of course, it is 1,000 times better to have a class-conscious
and intelligent Left-winger from among the youth, than
a Right-winger or a 1/2–Kautskyite from the party.

I am very much distressed that we do not see eye to eye
on self-determination. Let’s try to argue this out in detail
without a squabble (which someone is trying very hard to
stir up for us on this
score)[1].... Entre nous, perhaps
Alexander will show you my reply to N. I. Bukharin’s remarks
(for the time being this discord must remain strictly
confidential, but I trust to your discretion).

This question (“self-determination”) is of the utmost
importance. Besides, it is organically bound up with the
question of annexations.

P.S. I sent Alexander a great big letter a few days ago.
Has he got it?

Notes

[1]A hint at the differences and the struggle between Lenin, on the
one hand, and Radek, Pyatakov and others, on the other, on the
question of self-determination of nations, as a result of which
Kommunist ceased publication.